...Carolien Stolte The Indian trade union movement of the interwar years was marked by an increasing tension between reformist and revolutionary methods. The two factions shared an internationalist idiom and internationalist aspirations, but their visions of the postimperialist world order were...

...Pardis Mahdavi; Arash Khazeni Duke University Press 2011 h e t Introduction: Trade and Traffic in the Persianate World e World t e World Pardis Mahdavi...

...Touraj Daryaee This essay discusses the formation of an economy in late antiquity with the coming of the Sassanian Empire in 224 CE. Local, imperial, regional, and international trade and the role of the state and traders and their relation with one another are previewed. Based on surviving...

...Arash Khazeni This essay examines the environmental history of the Afghan frontier city of Balkh and its decline in the Central Eurasian caravan trade in the early nineteenth century. Situated on the frontier between the steppe and the sown, with the Hindu Kush to the south and the Oxus River...

...Erik Gilbert © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Sailing from Lamu and Back: Labor Migration and Regional Trade in Colonial East Africa Erik Gilbert In March of 1933, colonial officials...

...Sebastian R. Prange The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port Um Nancy Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2009 xiii + 270 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $30.00 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Merchant Houses of Mocha...

... and religion, through trade and Islam. He examines this evolution, as human beings and the products they carried started to connect these two places across the breadth of the Indian Ocean world. He also looks at how imperial energies unleashed in a later time period (primarily the nineteenth century) brought...

... , Of Common Cloth: Women in the Global Textile Industry , TNI, Amsterdam/Washington DC. Christian Conference of Asia (URM), 1982 , “ The Plight of Asian Workers in Electronics ,” Hong Kong. Committee for Asian Women (CAW), Journals, Newsletters, etc ., Hong Kong. Dabindu: Free Trade Zone Newspaper...

...Deepa Ollapally; G. Anandalingam Santosh Mehrotra, India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer , (Cambridge University Press, 1990) Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. mer Soviet Union in its “imperialistic...

... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 2 (1990). (Excerpted from the News Bulletin of the International Union of Food and Allied Workers’ Associations, volume 61 numbers 3-4, 1991). International Conference on Trade Union Rights in South Asia...

.... BANKING AND TRADING CASTES IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD: The Case of the Nattukotai Chettiars of Tamil Nadu Ramdas Menon The Nattukotai Chettiars are a small group of bankers was invested in moneylending and trade...

...E. Ann McDougall The historiography of the Sahara and trans-Saharan trade provides an explanatory key as to how premodern Saharan slavery has been understood since the nineteenth century. Part 1 of McDougall’s article deconstructs that historiography in terms of the intersecting influences...

...Owain Lawson Abstract This article writes engineers into the history of Lebanese political-economic thought. Historians of Lebanon's postindependence period have emphasized how a narrow, elite “consortium” espoused a national ideology that authorized laissez-faire monetary and trade policies...

...Ritu Birla First regulated as gambling, even as similar practices abroad were formalized in private exchanges and consolidated in boards of trade, vernacular futures trading in India foregrounds speculation as a problem of law and governing. This essay addresses the colonial management...

... to early nineteenth centuries. Both equines and equestrianism were enmeshed in the fabric of the Mughal empire and its successor states: in foreign trade, in its military practices, in the organization of the hierarchy of the nobility, and in the ritual practices, language, and visual culture of the court...

... a broad context in which subsistence crises of this kind could occur frequently. Loss of transcontinental trade and territories, the decline of local industries, worsening trade deficits, the devaluation and scarcity of currency, and chronic imperial and state-building warfare in an increasingly...

... traders, is not just the backdrop for diaspora and migration, for trade networks and imperial formations. Rather, this landscape actively creates tactile and embodied experiences of these phenomena. Monsoons, long-distance commerce, and even faraway places are not just symbolic imaginaries but very much...

...Paola Ivanov The Indian Ocean looks back on a long history of exchange concerning luxury goods that were primarily used for personal and interior decoration as well as in performative situations. In view of the primarily aesthetic dimension of the items of trade, Ivanov's article examines the role...

... of the state and the communities. In this narrative, slavery in Ethiopia is represented as a racialized prehistory of Atlantic slavery. The second narrative is the representation of slavery in a binary form: as a household practice within Ethiopia and the slave trade out of Ethiopia. This essay reinterprets...

... tradition of activism, in particular trade union activism around the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) and protests in the southern part of the country, such as the one that led to the ousting of dictator Ben Ali in 2011. Through a discussion of diachronic forms of racialization, the article suggests...